@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just put in a ticket to get our new VDI servers racked up... also trying not to freeze to death (southern version). See below:

As you can see, the apocalypse will occur sometime over the weekend. Between holidays and the looming lack of temperature, I'm afraid to go outside. Probably WW3 going on at Walmart right now.

Trade ya,…

And you to 4” of snow,… after rain. With a FLASH freeze.

Unifi has a captive portal in the controller,..

Oh,.. can’t be troubled to type a SSID, then dealing with a controller or really ANY captive portal option will likely be more than he wants to deal with..

This is not meant to be helpful:

Tell him to box up his equipment and return it, he doesn’t understand how to use technology.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm up in NY with my dad. Will be heading back to Texas tomorrow.

Welcome back, -waves- hope your dad is doing well.

If you are driving hope you make it through before we get hit with the Siberian Front…

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

hypervisor rebuilt & vm's moved back over.
success=yes

Nice. It's always great when things behave themselves after we whack them with a hammer a few times.

Yes,.. yes,.. whack it again!

Way to quiet,.. I’m gonna go over and unplug something,…

User profile is likely damaged,… kill the profile or Nike the computer…

But that is a first read guess.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

not getting replies to this topic emailed to me.
can the help desk help?

Should be under SETTINGS:

Then on the right side is Notifications.

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay you don't need one with word. In Word, just export as pdf.

I can't do that in bulk that way though, can I?

My user may have 50 or so word files and she wants to convert them all to separate PDFs without having to open each one individually in word.

I thought there may be a tool that would just let her bulk select all and convert them all at once.

You can do it with PowerShell. Make a simple script for the user to run.

Powershell for the win! Nicely done.

Pardon the geek out, but happy with a successful email send tonight...

What is so special about sending an email? Only that it was using AX.25 over VHF on 145.030MHz using a fifteen year old radio.. message travel about forty miles before it hit another computer then the internet....

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hey is @Phil-CommQuotes still around? I got permission to explore some bandwidth upgrades

How profile shows he was last here in 2020, if he has notify on, he may see your reference tag.

@WrCombs said in JAMF - Thoughts?:

@gjacobse said in JAMF - Thoughts?:

@WrCombs
Can't say about JAMF,.. but Microsoft Intune maybe an option. Once enrolled you can deploy apps, update, reset, remote wipe.

for Apple products?

Yup, Microsoft Intune will do both iOS and Android.

@WrCombs
Can't say about JAMF,.. but Microsoft Intune maybe an option. Once enrolled you can deploy apps, update, reset, remote wipe.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

troubleshooting a printer issue ... another one.

I worked on one of those today too,… started with deleting the printer and driver. Which worked with the install of universal driver

Too bad you could stop at just deleting the printer and driver, lol.

Lol, true. This company does a fair amount of shipping,.. we are ordering a dozen printers in the next few months. Printers aren’t going anywhere for us.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

troubleshooting a printer issue ... another one.

I worked on one of those today too,… started with deleting the printer and driver. Which worked with the install of universal driver

Well - maybe it was a mistake,.. maybe not. But the page is turned and I have never gone back.

Deleted the one account I needed to externally - Google/GMail. And the list of passwords I had kept has been put through the shredder. Not getting them back now.

We joked - for months - how people would leave and then return,.. or say they were leaving - but in six months. Some went from full time to PRN.

It was the company that you could resign any time but you never left. So many of the staff said I could always come back - I was leaving on 'good terms'.

In thirty-five years there has only been one company I have considered and even inquired about returning: NTG. I have never and otherwise would never consider returning to a company I left. There was a reason I left - why would I return.

Weekend plans:
Clean out my work travel bag in preparation for the new office Monday. It feels odd not being ready to do what I have done for just under two years.

Few things to finish paper work wise for Monday, ,… but Monday will sort out the rest and orientation and a full employee and not contract…. So many people were shocked to find out I was leaving and still a contractor.

Many tried to get me to stay,.. and I would have if the previous director hadn’t done some things.

And thus we grow- moving forward. …

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So... Dell calls me the other day about one of our servers potentially having defective RAM. I go to the data center today to pick up the parts.... 1 big box with 24 smaller boxes inside... Each small box contained only 1 stick of RAM!!!! Leaving 3 empty slots per box!!! They only gave me 9 return labels, which makes no sense. I only need 6 boxes to return everything.

I cannot math today,….

@Dashrender said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

are you needing a free solution?

I wouldn't expect Teamviewer to give you unattended access for free. Heck they start nagging and possible disabling the use if they see you abusing the 'free' option.

This is for a 70+ year old club member for his own personal use between his laptop while in Florida and his home computer... so needs to be super simple and reliable and repeatable and - yea... free. And stupid simple.

Welcome newcomers,.. join in.